Aside from finding out that your favorite magazine is ceasing publishing–something I experienced when the wonderful SCIENCE FICTION AGE ended its 8-year run nearly a quarter century ago–one of the more depressing trends for a magazine reader is to find your magazine putting out fewer issues in the space of a year than it once…
I’ve been skeptical of Creative Commons for some time. I’d heard a lot about it. For those who don’t know, it’s a kind of alternate model for copyright, making use of existing copyright law, but providing a means for a creator to license certain rights explicitly, while not exempting them from licensing other rights separately.…